Cranium Bones

Question 1

forms the forehead

Answer 1

frontal

Question 2

where sound enters and leads to the eardrum

Answer 2

external meatus

Question 3

what suture connects the 2 parietal bones?

Answer 3

sagittal suture

Question 4

what suture connects the frontal and parietal bone?

Answer 4

coronal suture

Question 5

protects the brain

Answer 5

parietal

Question 6

connects the occipital and parietal

Answer 6

lambdoid

Question 7

protects the eyes and brain

Answer 7

frontal

Question 8

protects the brain and ears

Answer 8

temporal

Question 9

attaches the side of neck muscles and ligaments

Answer 9

styloid process

Question 10

what suture connects the parietal and temporal bones?

Answer 10

squamous suture

Question 11

forms the superior and lateral walls of the cranium

Answer 11

parietal

Question 12

sharp needle like projection

Answer 12

styloid process

Question 13

butterfly shaped and spans width of skull

Answer 13

sphenoid

Question 14

provides protection to ear and eye

Answer 14

zygomatic process

Question 15

forms a snug enclosure for the pituitary gland

Answer 15

sphenoid bone

Question 16

forms roof of the nasal cavity

Answer 16

ethmoid bone

Question 17

forms base and back walls of the skull

Answer 17

occipital

Question 18

full of air cavities - sinuses

Answer 18

sphenoid sinuses

Question 19

allows spinal cord to connect with the brain

Answer 19

foramen magnum

Question 20

rest on the first vertebrae of the spinal column

Answer 20

occipital condyles

Question 21

joins with the cheek bone

Answer 21

zygomatic process

Question 22

medial part of the sphenoid bone

Answer 22

sella turcica

Question 23

attachment site for muscles of the neck

Answer 23

mastoid process

Question 24

forms the floor of the cranial cavity

Answer 24

occipital

Question 25

allows fibers of the the cranial nerve V to pass to the chewing muscles of the lower jaw

Answer 25

foramen ovale

Question 26

large oval opening of sphenoid bone

Answer 26

foramen ovale

Question 27

sinuses are associated with it

Answer 27

superior surface of the ethmoid

Question 28

small depression in sphenoid bone

Answer 28

sella turcica

Question 29

allows nerve fibers carrying impulses from the olfactory receptors of the nose to reach the brain

Answer 29

cribriform plates

Question 30

very irregular shape

Answer 30

ethmoid bone